Chapter 29: Impermanence
Li Xiaoxing looked back at Li's mother and scratched his head: "Saved my mother?" Isn't my mom still lying in a hospital bed? "
I waved my hand: "What do you want?" We are catching ghosts, not curing diseases. "
Li Xiaoxing nodded blankly: "So that's the case." "
I looked at him puzzled: "Why are you at a loss?" Didn't you text us saying there are ghosts, help? "
Li Xiaoxing scratched his head and took out his mobile phone from his pocket: "No." "Then, he asked me to look at the text message logs.
It's weird, there is really no record on it. Could it be that Li Xiaoxing was delirious and deleted in a daze?
I moved a chair and sat in front of Li Xiaoxing's bed. Ask him, "Do you know about your mother's raising of little ghosts?" "
Li Xiaoxing nodded: "At that time, I was still young, and the store was sluggish. Later, my mother began to offer a paper figure, in addition to burning incense, but also burning paper money. My mother said that this little ghost is a bull head and horse face in the underworld, and when these paper money is burned, this little ghost will use the money to bribe Lord Yama, which can bless people with a long life, and can also bless our family with wealth. "
I scratched my head: "But I heard a driver say that you use imps to harm people, kill people, and then buy your family's paper money." "
Li Xiaoxing was furious: "Fart." Xu You, we are studying economics, and you don't count? If you kill a person, how much paper money can you sell? Is it worth it? "
I nodded: "I don't think it's worth it, either." So is it useful for you to raise a little ghost? "
Li Xiaoxing nodded: "It's useful, it's really useful." At first, there were a few paper shops around, but gradually they stopped doing it and changed their careers. Then, there were fewer and fewer paper shops in the whole city. Our family's business is gradually improving. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have been able to go to college. And, in recent months, I've heard from my mom that the crematorium in the city has been approaching us recently and is planning to cooperate. Think about it, how much money will you have to earn in the future? "
My eyes widened when I heard this, and I couldn't imagine that Li Xiaoxing's family was so rich in opening a paper shop.
However, Li Xiaoxing's expression darkened: "However, since I raised a little ghost, I often have nightmares, and I feel that there are many more little ghosts in my home." So, over the years, I have become more and more reluctant to go home. Xu You, you just said that you would help us catch ghosts, did you catch the ghost raised by my mother? "
I nodded, and then told me about the past two days.
Li Xiaoxing sighed and said, "If you catch it, you can catch it, you can't live by raising ghosts for a lifetime." Anyway, I'm graduating now, so it's time to get a serious job. "
Zhang Yuan had been sitting next to him, holding his peachwood sword and looking at it. I don't know what Lu Dao is thinking.
I was halfway through talking to Li Xiaoxing, when suddenly, the mobile phone in my pocket rang.
I took it out and saw that it was a number I didn't recognize.
I answered, and the voice inside was very familiar: "Yes, is it Master Xu Youxu?" "
I hesitated and said, "I'm Xu You." How do you know my phone number? Who are you? "
The other end also hesitated and said, "You gave me a business card." "
It dawned on me: "You buy insurance? "
The other end hesitated for a moment: "I have already bought it." I drove a taxi, do you remember? "
I thought for a moment, "Oh, you're the taxi driver who pulled me to the paper shop that day?" "
The other end said, "That's right, that's right. Master Xu. Is your master here? "
I said, "My master is right next to me, do you want to talk to him?" "
The driver made a loud voice and said anxiously: "No, no, no, Master Xu, I'm looking for you." You're like this, you find a place where no one is, let's talk about it alone, how about it? "
I was a little confused: "What the hell do you want to do?" "
The driver said mysteriously, "Very important thing." Where are you now? I'll pick you up. "
I scratched my head: "Still in the hospital." "
After hearing this, the driver thought for a while and said, "Master Xu, can you come out for a trip, don't bring anyone, don't tell anyone, just yourself." I'll pick you up. "
I nodded, "Okay." "
After hanging up the phone, I looked at Zhang Yuan: "Master, I'm going out for a while, you wait for me here for a while." "
Zhang Yuan nodded absentmindedly.
I walked out of the hospital slowly, thinking all the way. The driver is mysterious, what does he want to do?
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind: "The driver must be trying to kidnap me?" "Thinking of this, I turned around and wanted to go back.
However, someone grabbed my arm: "Master Xu, I've been waiting for you for half an hour." "
I turned around and it was the driver.
I was a little nervous: "What do you want to do?" "
The driver stomped his feet: "Master Xu, you are in danger, do you know the way?" There will be a bloody disaster in the near future. "
I waved my hand: "Don't make trouble, listen to you, I should call you master." "
The driver sighed: "Master Xu, come with me quickly, and I'll take you to meet someone." "
I was stuck in a taxi by the driver, and after ten minutes, I came to a food stall.
The driver pointed to the owner of the food stall and said, "This is my brother." "
I nodded at the stall owner.
The driver said to the boss: "Tell Master Xu, what did you meet last night?" "
The boss wiped his hands with a rag: "Master Xu, you see that my face is clean, but when I was a child, I was called Mazi, and I don't know what Lu Dao is for, my parents gave me such a name." Last night, I was frying fried fritters in my own shed, preparing to go to the night market later. As a result, when I was halfway through the explosion, there was a sudden plop, and the shed collapsed, crushing me underneath. "
When I heard this, I nodded again and again on the surface, pretending to be very serious, but in my heart I was muttering: "Could it be that this person has an accident, so he also wants to buy insurance from me?" "
Then the pockmark continued: "Originally, this shed was not heavy, and it couldn't die if it was pressed on me." But there were a few iron bars that stuck me in it, and I couldn't move. At this time, the pot of hot oil and the stove were whirring. I'm going to burn me to death. At this time, I heard two people talking outside. One of them said, 'Lao Zhang, I heard that you have a new apprentice? When will it be brought out for me to see. Then another man said, 'That's right, it's called Xu You, it's surprisingly stupid.' I haven't told him the truth yet. I heard someone outside, and I shouted for help. At this time, I heard the man outside say, 'Oh no, I mistook it, it's not this pockmark.' As soon as I heard this, I shouted: 'Since you have been caught by mistake, then drag me out quickly.' After shouting this, I felt that someone had dragged me out from under the shed.
"At that time, I was dazed by the fire, and dimly saw two figures leaving. One of them was dressed in monk's robes, but had hair and a pimple on his head. "
The more I listened to this pockmarked words, the more frightened I became, and I couldn't help but say, "You mean, my master went to kill you last night?" It couldn't be, we were together all night. "
After I said this, I was a little bottomless in my heart, because when I returned to Li Xiaoxing's house last night, I fell asleep and didn't wake up until eleven o'clock.
Mazi looked left and right, and said in a very low voice: "The key is in the back, when I woke up in the morning, I heard that the neighbor's house was firing a cannon, I went out to take a look, and the spirit flag had been hung up." When I went over to ask, a person died in their family, and this person's life is also called pockmark. Moreover, he was halfway through a meal and suddenly fell ill and died. "
Speaking of this, the driver looked at me nervously: "Master Xu, I think you are a good person, real, not like you play with your heart." And you worked tirelessly to get rid of the imps in the paper shop, and we neighbors are very grateful to you. Today, our brothers are risking their lives to tell you the news. It's just to remind you that you have to be on guard against your master. "
I didn't know what to say, and I was a little confused in my head: "Beware of Master? What to guard against? "
The driver sighed: "My brother and I both think that your master is a ghost who walks impermanently and catches ghosts for Lord Yama." You have to be careful not to let him hurt you. "
The driver and Mazi talked a lot, and I didn't listen to a word. The sentence always revolves around my mind: "Your master is an impermanence ghost." "
Originally, Zhang Yuan was mysterious and unpredictable, and I usually like to guess what he is doing when I have nothing to do. Today, when the driver and Mazi said this, the more I think about it, the more similar it becomes.
I returned to the hospital in a daze that day and saw Zhang Yuan waiting for me at the entrance of the hospital. When he saw that I was back, he didn't ask anything, but just said, "Is the matter done?" "
I nodded blankly, and he put away the peachwood sword: "Let's go, go back to the Great Holy Temple." "
I bowed my head and said nothing, and followed him slowly all the way.
When we return to the Great Temple, it's time for dinner.
When the abbot saw the two of us coming back, he muttered, "Why did you two come back after eating dry rice?" Then he reluctantly brought out two bowls of rice.
After dinner, we went to sleep.
In the middle of the night, I tossed and turned, and I couldn't sleep. Zhang Yuan's matter became a big pimple in my heart. So I got up and went into the abbot's house.
The abbot was snoring like thunder, and he was sleeping soundly, and I followed the sound and covered his mouth.
The abbot woke up and punched out. Fortunately, thanks to the exercise in the past few months, I reacted very quickly, grabbed the abbot's arm, and whispered: "It's me, I'm Xu You." "
The abbot then fell silent.
I let go of my hand, and the abbot said angrily, "You are sick, in the middle of the night." "
I sighed and sat down in the dark: "Abbot, something happened. "
I heard a fumbling and the abbot sat up: "What's wrong?" "
I thought about it for a while, and finally said, "I found that something was wrong with my master. "
The abbot slapped his thigh: "I have already seen it, can the person dug out of the pit be right?" "
In the dark, I shook my head: "This time, there is the rest of the evidence. "